The 2 Best Tools in Your Leadership Toolkit

I always love the research involved in writing an article about a certain assigned subject. The adjective indigenous is derived from the Latin etymology meaning ‘native’ or ‘born within’; and from this standpoint we can say that any community might be called indigenous in reference to a particular region. Other meanings of the word are inherent, innate, original, first, or natural, which in my mind fully describes our true birthplace called universal Consciousness. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines indigenous people as ‘a body of persons that are united by a common culture, tradition, or sense of kinship, which typically have common language, institutions, and beliefs.’ Doesn’t this sound like ‘us’ the searchers of light and truth?

Oh how it is wonderful to know that, as in a courtroom setting we have been acquitted, pardoned if you like, of all the sins we have ever committed and all those things we will commit – our sin in total – and, that by faith in Christ – we are justified before the Father, and hence reconciled to God. How wonderful it is to encapsulate within our imaginations the entirety and totality of such a thought; not that we swim in our sin; no, we are to crucify the flesh.

The agency for spiritual growth is hardship, and there may be no more confounding an experience as hardship and spiritual dryness. Frost has this thing about it that it renders things immovable. We melt our spiritual frost by continuing to trust and obey, despite the hardship.

The Lord Jesus Christ showed us life possibilities on earth. He demonstrated that all things are possible with God. I believe that everyone would love to explore life possibilities in his own personal life. Here are the top tips on life possibilities.

We somehow need to wrestle the balance between becoming a manic workaholic and being a hermit. We need to believe that God’s will for our lives is that we would be efficient and effective workers who are skilfully able to manage the balance between work, rest and play.

As I listened to the fellas play, I thought about them and the ends of their lives. Did they truly believe they were going to spend an eternity in heaven with God or were they just playing a rhythmic song?

The heavens declare the glory of God. The sky displays his handiwork. How can anyone observe the sun and stars and nature and fail to believe in God? Saying that God does not exist is like saying the stars do not exist. God created the stars and gave them all a name. Science does wonderful things until it puts forth theories of how nature created the world. God created nature.

What do you do when you are disconsolate and down or perhaps depressed? It is a good valuable question to which many will relate. There was a man who was once very down and he writes about his experience. His solution and answer has helped many down through the years. He writes about what he was going through in Psalms 42 and 43. He is having a bad time as many do and he describes how he was downcast and disturbed, and he had good reason to be so. There was that question following shootings and tragedies in colleges and schools in the United States of America and the question was, “What was God doing then and where was your God when that was happening?” One reply was that God was no longer allowed into the schools. When you think Jesus Christ might have turned away from you and left you, allow me to reassure you that that will never happen!

Caring for the ecology and the environment is really a matter of morality, and of faith, and flows from belonging to God, and the further we slide away from God the more serious the situation in the world becomes. I recall sitting outside on a beautiful dark cloudless night, north of Mombasa with not an artificial light around me and to see the magnificence of the stars in that scenario was stupendous. I could also see man made satellites crossing the starry heavens. It was a memorable evening and it made me think of the shepherd boy David looking after his sheep at night in the wilderness of Judea with bears and lions roaming around, causing danger to his flock. There are such spiritual lessons in these sentences. We have the whole panorama of sacred history from Creation to the fall and onto Christ coming to set us free from sin, set out in a few succinct words.

Yes it is good to ask questions and these have come my way and I have answers, I hope, for you and also trust they are answers that meet your need and satisfy your asking. Many feel despised and rejected and not wanted and these are strong emotions and scars. There was a despised child in the time of Ezekiel the prophet and we read of what happened there. No matter how things might appear and no matter how serious your questions might be, know that nothing is too big for our gracious living loving God to deal with. Man need to know this, and be reminded of it frequently, because it can be so easy to forget. There is always more and more for us to receive and then there will come that day when we will be able to help others who may be troubled and bothered by the very problems from which Jesus Christ released us and then lifted us up. One thing you can be so very sure of is that Jesus will never cast you down. It is the enemy of Jesus who does that!

It is an amazing account and worthy of serious careful study. You may never have read the account in this way previously. Let it speak to you and let it even speak through you to a world that does not understand the value of life. Pharaoh issued a decree that all the Hebrew baby boys should be killed as soon as they are born. Today, we do not even wait until they are born! This sort of thing can happen when we wander away from Jesus Christ and His Word, and the nations of the world are experiencing the tragic and painful consequences of that in these present days. Do you see the amazing significance of the ministry of these five woman and they did not realise what they were doing at the time?

When Almighty God gives real revelation to men and women how are they to respond and how are they to react and do we have guidelines and direction and help from the Scriptures? Yes, we do and it would be wise to give heed and pay attention. Another question that I have to face frequently is, how can we take Scripture to heart and how can we hear God speak and the answer is simply is to meditate upon what God is saying in His holy Word and to seek to do everything written in its pages. That is a big task but then again we today have the ever present help and assistance of the Holy Spirit. Is there a big difference between the wicked and the righteous? There certainly is, and if we read Psalm 1, we have that explained to us in brief and simple terms.